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I'm trying to reassociate an external SSD drive restored from a Time Machine backup on MacOS Sonoma 14.3.

I used all kinds of combinations of this command:

sudo tmutil associatedisk -a "/Volumes/<My drive>" "/Volumes/MY TimeMachine Drive/YYYY-MM-DD-TTTTTT.previous/<My external drive>"
sudo tmutil associatedisk -a /Volumes/<My external drive> /Volumes/.timemachine/AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAA/YYYY-MM-DD-TTTTTT.backup/YYYY-MM-DD-TTTTTT.backup/<My external drive>

Yet I always keep getting this message:

A local volume mount point and a snapshot volume path are required.

The man page uses super outdated format for the snaphost volume path. It seems this tmutil associatedisk function doesn't work at tall anymore or there's some "secret" new format for the format of the paths.

Please help!

Michal Nowak
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  • Does my answer here https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/453387/time-machine-restore-to-new-external-drive help you? I believe your -a is not correct for APFS TM disk. – Gilby Feb 18 '24 at 21:51

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